{"id":14713,"date":"2012-02-11T00:52:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T05:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=14713"},"modified":"2012-02-11T00:52:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T05:52:51","slug":"the-ss-marines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=14713","title":{"rendered":"The SS Marines"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/02\/10\/10377899-defense-secretary-panetta-orders-new-look-into-marines-flag-bearing-nazi-ss-logo\">An initial Marine<\/a> investigation into the matter concluded that the troops would not be disciplined because there was no malicious intent. The Marines mistakenly believed the \"SS\" in the shape of white lightning bolts on the blue flag were a nod to sniper scouts \u2014 not members of Adolf Hitler's special unit that murdered millions of Jews, Catholics, gypsies and others, said Maj. Gabrielle Chapin, a spokeswoman at Camp Pendleton, California.<\/p>\n<p>But the furor over the photo \u2014 which was taken in September 2010 in Afghanistan \u2014 grew as Jewish leaders and others questioned whether it was an innocent mistake. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh, furor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An initial Marine investigation into the matter concluded that the troops would not be disciplined because there was no malicious intent. The Marines mistakenly believed the \"SS\" in the shape of white lightning bolts on the blue flag were a nod to sniper scouts \u2014 not members of Adolf Hitler's special unit that murdered millions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}